I have been using MacVim & have gotten used to it but my main development computers are all Linux(Ubuntu)
I'd like MacVim like shortcuts and behavior
I know you can get windows like behavior like so
source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim behave mswin how can I get Mac like behavior in GVIM on ubuntu?
I use MacVim on Mac OS X at work, GVim on Linux at home and CLI Vim everywhere. What do you call "MacVim like shortcuts and behavior"?
Do you mean "standard OS-wide shortcuts" like Cmd+O or Cmd+V or Shift+light/left arrow? I don't know of any features MacVim has that GVim hasn't beside a very elegant and impressive level of OS integration.
Shortcuts that use the Cmd key are obviously not supported because there is no Cmd key on a typical PC keyboard. If you really want to have them you will need to explicitly add them to your ~/.gvimrc with another modifier key. Shift+right/left arrow and other basic Mac OS X text-editing shortcuts must also be explicitly added to your ~/.gvimrc. You'll quickly find limitations in this strategy.
Hell, GVim doesn't even really support Gnome's own default shortcuts anyway.
That's the wrong approach.
Vim's own commands, motions, text-objects and the grammar that ties them are a lot more efficient and portable. You should focus on that instead.
:e <Tab> $ for positioning the cursor or A to insert text^ or 0 (0 is "first column', ^ is "first printable character") for positioning the cursor or I to insert texte or E or w or Wb or Bv$v^ve then eee as many times as necessary or v2eand so on…
Like I've said before, read :help motion.txt, it will blow your mind.
<D-...> works only in MacVim on Mac OS X: it doesn't mean anything to Vim outside of this context and the "Windows/Super" key is not even registered by GVim on Linux. That's two possible modifiers out: time to reconsider your idea.